Rett

Oct 01, 2008 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Blasted Pictures!

Blasted Pictures

If you want to post a pic
Here’s the perfect size
One thirty by one fifty pixels
Is the word to the wise

If you want your pic to show
Load and submit, then submit again
When it goes back to your homepage
Hit reload and you’ll see it then

I have seen several people that have had trouble loading their pictures so I thought I’d write this
little ditty. I hope it helps some that are having trouble.
Respectfully,
Rett

— Rett, Oct 01, 2008

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Southern Texas, USA

Favorite Poets: Dickenson, Longfellow

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Critiques

Arrow

17 years 8 months ago

Targeting your lesson to your audience.

You missed your calling as a teacher, maybe.

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

LOL Teacher material?

That would be good Arrow. I have a General Equivilance Diploma (G.E.D.) which I got several years after I quit High School. That is something I have regretted all my life. I made sure my wife got her education and she has a degree in business. I guess that may be why I read so much and try to research stuff I don't understand. Nope, if I tried to be a teacher they would laugh me out of the school. *LOL* Thank you my friend. Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

rider68

17 years 8 months ago

I would Question......

Rett You belittle yourself my friend, I quote - "If I tried to be a teacher they would laugh me out of the school" I haven't heard too many laughing here, only loads of warm respects......... Don't be putting yourself down.... Kindest Regards...Peter ~~~"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday, and I love today."~~~

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

Thanks Peter

I wasn't doing it intentionally, but I do tend toward that when it comes to my lack of education. That is a big failing of mine that I have tried very hard to overcome. Much obliged. Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

Barbara Writes

17 years 8 months ago

In our nature

Smiles:) Barbara when we see people struggle we tend to teach out of love and concern with the intent to make life a little easier in ways we can help, your poem does that to the greatest degree great write I sure needed its instruction as I have pic problems needing help as i wrote this comment. PS.it worked

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

Wonderful

If it helped just one person it was worth writing. Thank you Barbara. Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

WonderGolly

17 years 8 months ago

.... you know what...

...I guess you like playing with words... Well nice piece for found lacking because I'm one of them BUT THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO, about Twenty Centuries today. well, I see you're the man of the day. that was a bang. best wishes. Wonder.

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

Thanks Golly

Yes, I like playing with words. It is fun. Also, poetry and especially rhyme has been a teaching aid basically since man learned to talk. Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

infinite_dwarf

17 years 8 months ago

cute

and informative! Wish I could find the CD for Photoshop, so I can stop using MS Paint (useless) to scale down my pictures.... Thanks for the info. ~Jess K. ---------------------------------------------------- "If you've ever emptied the back of your pickup truck by driving backward really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck" - Jeff Foxworthy Bill Engvall: "that's how we moved"

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

I use paintshop pro

for the simple reason it is extremely easy to do and do it quickly. For more involved stuff I use Photoshop. Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

Kailashana

17 years 8 months ago

So how does one stretch a

So how does one stretch a small picture? like the one I have to fit in the black space?

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

Anna

In your picture program you need to "resize it". Set it at 130 x 150 pixels. 130 being the width and 150 being the height. Hope this helps. Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

Mark

17 years 8 months ago

aaaH Anna

If I may, I do not stretch it I resize it. If you have MS Office it has Picture Manager and if you push the edit pictures tab you will see resize on the right near the bottom. First right click on the picture and choose Open With then choose Microsoft Picture Manager. Best of Luck, This is one way to do it there are many :) Mark Old bandits are really young rascals.

Mark

17 years 8 months ago

Mighty fine to Ad that Rett

I keep a picture of the picture in my docs so if need be I can just scroll over it and get that size lol I use Corel 2 as PSP boggles my mind :( Mark Old bandits are really young rascals.

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

LOL if you think PSP

boggles the mind, try Photoshop CS! Wowser! I have a directory called Avatars that I keep for the ones I want to post. I have a 400 GB hard drive split into 4 drives. C drive has my programs on it. D drive has my poetry and documents on it. E drive keeps my pictures that I make or the photos I take. F drive is my downloads and shared folders and the one I allow the network to access. That way if windows crashes all I have to reload is my operating system and my programs. I also keep a backup of everything on DVD. Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

Mark

17 years 8 months ago

Yea I underdstand

How complicated they can be. I'm learning to write CSS on another site and many of the designers there are professionals. They do outstanding work and I would be thrilled to see some of yours sometime, Rett. Thanks, Mark Old bandits are really young rascals.

Kailashana

17 years 8 months ago

is my computer illiteracy

is my computer illiteracy showing? lol. i daresay!

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

Anna, too many people

into computers tend to forget that each of us started and were just as illiterate at one time. I still remember when I started back in the days of DOS. When I discovered they actually had things called programs already written I was in heaven. *LOL* Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

Arrow

17 years 7 months ago

Ah, the good ole days

I started off with a Timex Sinclair (does anyone even remember this?) and in college, I had to learn how to program in Pascal (#$!%$#*** language).

Rett

17 years 7 months ago

I remember the Timex Sinclair. For it's time is was a dang

Good instrument. I also remember the Commadore Pet, the 64 and the 128. My first really cool computer was a IBM clone with the Intel 8088 processor. A whopping 4.77 MHZ, yes megahertz, not giga, with a 4 color CGA video card, 640 K of Ram and 2 360K floppy drives. *ROTFLMAO* Respectfully, Rett: "Does this election remind you of The Emperors New Clothes? No one has the guts to tell him because..." Rett

themoonman

17 years 8 months ago

Hi Rett...

glad you are back and posting.. and look at this helpful instructional poem, I have tried to help a couple of people with the pictures but I didn't say it as well as you... it sure took me a few times to figure it out... You are computer savvy, I know who to ask if I have a problem... lol Hope you are getting back to normal there... Richard

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

Thanks Richard

I am back to a semblance of normal. Waiting on insurance and trying to muddle through the maze of FEMA. I will be glad when I get the damage to my house fixed. Otherwise I am pretty much normal, that is if you can call me normal. *LOL* Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

themoonman

17 years 8 months ago

Rett...

I wanted to ask if your house had sustained any damage, you may have posted it but I have been so busy here that this is the first day in two weeks I've got to sit down for any length of time without distractions... I know when Hugo came through here my house didn't get hit by any falling trees but many did.. I hope you get the insurance straightened out, that can be a nightmare... Richard

Barbara Writes

17 years 8 months ago

WOW

Smiles:) Barbara so many ways to saving work i'm more of a software and Internet person though i love learning everything started computer class 4 years ago so much to learn. sounds fun

Rett

17 years 8 months ago

Yep sometimes it's fun

and sometimes it can be maddening. I built my neighbor a computer 2 years ago and it kept blowing the hard drives. Went through 3 and the last one actually went POP real loud before I figured out the mother board I had bought was bad. Traded it back in on another one and it has worked like a charm ever since. Respectfully, Rett: "Two things stand in the way of a liberal doing what he thinks is best for people. One, he doesn't have enough power and two, we have too much freedom. If he figures out how to overcome either then we are in real trouble." Rett

Barbara Writes

17 years 8 months ago

Maddening yeah been there

Smiles:) Barbara fixed my first laptop to death. waiting to fix it one day when I learn and remember more, I learn better by site and hands on, remember better that way, needs a motherboard. and some new keys i popped them off after my son wasted sweet tea in it thinking it would be easy to snapped back on. condition not right for me to get too all you do. so i'm on line all the time looking to learn and do more.

Rett

17 years 7 months ago

Usually, that happens

when they are in the process of doing the upgrades on the system. It should be fine in a while. Respectfully, Rett: "Does this election remind you of The Emperors New Clothes? No one has the guts to tell him because..." Rett

Mark

17 years 7 months ago

ooh Janice

Actually it is a breeze compared to the original program or settings. I have not had a problem since then. I hope you have many to show as it is the picture program here. Mark Man thinks this.

Barbara Writes

17 years 7 months ago

Mark

I too notice the change in the private message and said, cool, how neat. We can now p.m right from the person poem thread if want to. Just beautiful I think. Respectfully Yours, Barbara

Geremia

17 years 5 months ago

Pics

J.B. Longo-Geremia Thanks for the suggestions. Still no " show." :) joe

Ink Dragon

17 years 5 months ago

I found out something else:

Which picture appears on your screen can depend on your browser. If you cannot see your new pic, others might still see it. Change temporarily to another browser to make sure. Ink

andrew

17 years 5 months ago

I added a note to the avatar

I added a note to the avatar upload page that explains that you should refresh the page after the upload is complete to see the new photo.